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Originally Posted by GGG
I don't know if what he did was a crime. How does the mischief statute lead?
He damaged his property and he left his wife and kids. Its a pretty low thing to do but why can't someone just disappear. Would it still be mischief if he just left and didn't smash his car?
Provided he never reported anything or lied to the police everything he did seems to be with in the realms of the law.
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Public Mischief
140. (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by
(a) making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence;
(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;
(c) reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed; or
(d) reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.